Dr. Huiyi Bao, born in Shanghai in 1985, is a medievalist, poet and translator. She got her PhD in Middle English at University College Dublin and is now assistant professor at the Department of English, Fudan University, Shanghai. Her research focuses on the sensorium in medieval literature, and the textual-pictorial interaction in English and Latin illuminated manuscripts from the eighth to fifteenth century. She is the author of one book of prose on Irish culture, Annála an Oileáin Iathghlais (2015), and two books of poetry, A Pagan Book of Hours (2012), and I Sit on the Edge of the Volcano (2016), as well as the translator of twelve books from English to Chinese, including Complete Poems by Elizabeth Bishop, Ariel by Sylvia Plath and Good Bones by Margaret Atwood. Huiyi was the 2014 Dublin Translator in Residence, and was a guest lecturer at Trinity College Dublin. She won the National Bookstore Prize in 2015.